How to change self.my_property value from other script (SOLVED)

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Hi, I would like to change self properties from gameobjects with the same script, from other script, I have the ID of the gameobject but don’t know how to access to that self properties or how to change the values.

-- why dont work this?
temp_self = go.get(my_id_from_other_script,  self)

We have a way to have the self of the gameobject, or all the gameobject like this?

go.gameobject(id).self.my_property

Or how to access a specific gameobject data.

function init(self)
    self.this = self
end
-- but how can acces to this?
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Properties defined using go.property(name, value) can be accessed from any script using go.get() and set().

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local value = go.get("other_object#other_script", "other_property",)    
go.set("other_object#other_script", "other_property", value + 1)

If the other object is in other collection, you’ll need to add collection id at the beginning of the address :wink:

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Another option is to just used a shared module to access/modify another script’s self. For most purposes you can simply treat “self” as a table. This approach also lets you share/modify data types that can’t be object properties (notably tables), and is a lot faster than using go.get and go.set.

shared_data module (just an empty table):

return {}

script whose “self” you want access to:

local shared_data = require "path.to.shared_data"

function init(self) 
	self.instance_id = go.get_id()
	shared_data[self.instance_id] = self
end

function final(self)
	shared_data[self.instance_id] = nil
end

script you want to access another “self” in:

local shared_data = require "path.to.shared_data"

local function do_something_with_other_self(other_id)
	local other_self = shared_data[other_id]
	if other_self then
		-- do whatever
	end
end
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I thought that go.property(“my_property”, value) was only to show the property on the shelf, so I just add in the init() self.start_position = go.get_position() without the go.property("start_position ", 0) so that was by bad, thanks for all your answers!.